Odds & Ends: Mets, Reds, Halos, Skippers

Another batch of links as the Braves and Phillies prepare to get underway on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball…

According to ex-Mets GM Jim Duquette, via Adam Rubin of the New York Daily News, the Mets have canceled their fall instructional league "in an apparent cost-cutting maneuver." If they're making cutbacks in the minors, might they also have cutbacks in mind at the big league level?